Screech owl nesting in new owl box

We’ve been sadly without a screech owl family for respective years aft losing our owl-box histrion and having to determination the box. We really person 2 owl boxes present — 1 successful the beforehand gait and 1 successful the back. Since January (when nesting play begins) I’ve been glancing up each clip I walk by, hoping to spot an owl, and feeling a small crestfallen by the seemingly bare boxes.

But present LOOK! An owl!!

I judge we person a nesting pistillate successful our front-yard box. There’s different screech owl hanging retired successful the trees — her mate. Once oregon doubly I’ve spotted him, and different times I conscionable perceive him calling to her. They are remarkably camouflaged against unrecorded oak trunks and progressive aft dark, erstwhile it’s adjacent harder to see. As the prima goes down, the pistillate scrabbles up the wrong of the container and appears astatine the opening.

She flies retired for a abbreviated clip — stretching her wings? Going to the bathroom? Getting a portion of water?

And past she comes back. I’m guessing she’s sitting connected eggs.

What a thrill to person these beauteous small owls nesting successful 1 of our owl boxes again!

I’ll beryllium looking up, hoping for a sighting, each clip I locomotion by.

And eventually, if each goes well, owlets!

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